A 2022 study found that a toy transformer trained only on board game move notations internally built world models of the board and its state, leading researchers to conclude that large language models…
DuckDuckGo and Bing search results exposed police license plate searches from Flock Safety's automatic license plate reader system, revealing full plate numbers, case details, and investigation reason…
Automatic license plate reader company Flock exposed the reasons police conducted vehicle searches, including case numbers and search terms like "GTA," through common search engines such as DuckDuckGo…
Agentic search can be implemented in three distinct ways: retrieval-centric, harness-centric, and model-centric. The retrieval-centric approach relies on building high-quality search to guide agents, …
A SERP API provides structured search engine results in JSON or HTML format, enabling teams to collect ranking data, ads, and SERP features at scale without building custom scrapers. SEO teams use the…
Microsoft released Web IQ, a suite of AI-native grounding APIs powered by Bing, designed specifically for AI agents to search and retrieve real-time web information. Unlike traditional search engines …
Microsoft Corporation released an artificial intelligence chatbot named Tay on Twitter on March 23, 2016, designed to mimic a 19-year-old American girl and learn from user interactions. Within 16 hour…
Google, Bing and Perplexity have shifted search from a list of blue links to AI-generated summaries that synthesize answers before users see sources. A developer argues this trade-off sacrifices evide…
Google's AI Overviews, Bing's Copilot answers, and Perplexity's AI summaries are replacing traditional search results with synthesized paragraphs, collapsing multiple sources into single, confident-so…
Microsoft's proprietary MAI Image 2.5 text-to-image model now ranks #3 on the arena.ai leaderboard, beating competitors including Stable Diffusion 3.5, DALL-E 3, and Ideogram 2.0 based on human prefer…
Microsoft retired the Bing Search API on August 11, 2025, leaving thousands of teams without an official endpoint for organic search results. A developer built an Apify Actor that scrapes Bing's publi…
Spronta launched a free, agent-run email newsletter that delivers weekly competitive intelligence briefs tailored to each subscriber's business. The system uses three AI agents to monitor six sources …
A developer has identified a growing gap between traditional Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), where a website can rank #1 on Google yet remain completely invisibl…
A test of five search engines and ChatGPT across five common queries found that no tool produced consistently good results, with all failing to surface correct, non-spam information in the top results…
Google's search market share remained stable at around 90% as of last month, down only slightly from 92% in November 2022 when OpenAI launched ChatGPT, defying widespread predictions that the chatbot …
A new tool called Localpicks.ai claims that 98.8% of local businesses are invisible when customers ask ChatGPT for recommendations. The service offers a free 30-second audit that checks a business's v…
Google's recent Search update prioritizes AI-generated summaries over traditional link lists, causing unexpected issues like a broken result for the word "disregard," which displays a large empty spac…
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, announced he will leave the company next year after a 35-year career. He will remain focused on marketing for Wi…
Microsoft is still displaying a spoofed Google homepage on Bing in May 2026, 18 months after the deceptive UI was first reported and supposedly removed. The tactic, which tricks users into running Bin…